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There’s a bit of catching up to do hence this hodgepodge of subjects. The picture nor the song have anything to do with anything, they’re just favourites. The song is Weighty Ghost from the album Welcome to the Night Sky by Canadian band Wintersleep (yes they’ll always be albums to me).
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Ricin
On September 11th I posted a blog voicing my concerns over the possibility of a water supply being tampered with, specifically with ricin. That came up partly due to a dream Purpleaura had about castor oil, and partly because of a dream I had of the local water supply being poisoned. That dream involved me pulling a vial out of my nose containing the antidote.
I’m sure by now everybody's familiar with the story of ricin being found in a hotel room in Vegas on Friday. It was reported the hotel was very near a water treatment plant. What I didn’t know until this morning is the ricin was contained in vials. I would suppose that makes perfect sense but it wasn’t anything I was thinking about so it sure caught my attention.
Vials linked to man test positive for ricin
LAS VEGAS Vials found in the motel room of a man hospitalized in critical condition tested positive for the deadly toxin ricin, authorities said yesterday.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.briefs01mar01,0,7671231.story
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Ricin
On September 11th I posted a blog voicing my concerns over the possibility of a water supply being tampered with, specifically with ricin. That came up partly due to a dream Purpleaura had about castor oil, and partly because of a dream I had of the local water supply being poisoned. That dream involved me pulling a vial out of my nose containing the antidote.
I’m sure by now everybody's familiar with the story of ricin being found in a hotel room in Vegas on Friday. It was reported the hotel was very near a water treatment plant. What I didn’t know until this morning is the ricin was contained in vials. I would suppose that makes perfect sense but it wasn’t anything I was thinking about so it sure caught my attention.
Vials linked to man test positive for ricin
LAS VEGAS Vials found in the motel room of a man hospitalized in critical condition tested positive for the deadly toxin ricin, authorities said yesterday.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.briefs01mar01,0,7671231.story
Purpleaura did a little more digging on ricin and found a few interesting things, one concerning the patent on the deadly substance, held by the U.S. army:
Ricin Patent Removed from PTO Database?
Security expert Bruce Schneier has written to blogger and Mercury News technology columnist Dan Gillmor about a patent that seems to be missing from the online US database ('Dangerous' Patent Removed from Database?). He quotes Schneier:
In October 1962, the U.S. Patent Office granted patent 3,060,165 regarding the use of ricin as a biological weapon. Published patents are, of course, publicly available. That's the point.
All US patents are available from the USPTO website: "full-text since 1976, full-page images since 1790." However, for some reason, this particular patent is no longer in the database:
Clicking on "Images" only produces a "Patent not found" image.
The patent is still available in foreign databases, so it seems like a rather futile exercise if the removal was due to concerns about knowledge of WMDs.
http://importance.corante.com/archives/002376.html
I’m afraid I just don’t believe in terrorists anymore. At least not what we’ve been led to believe, like who the terrorists are and their objectives. This latest incident could certainly be construed as a terrorist act, but more likely it was staged for other reasons by the real threat on this planet. Every single time an incident such as this occurs, another loss of freedom act gets passed or introduced, which is the same thing as passed these days.
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February 28, 2008
WASHINGTON — Using some of his toughest language in weeks, President Bush prodded Congress on Thursday to pass his preferred version of surveillance legislation, asserting that every day of delay could put the country in danger.
Mr. Bush said again that renewing the surveillance legislation is “a very urgent priority,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/washington/28cnd-bush.html?ref=business
WASHINGTON — Using some of his toughest language in weeks, President Bush prodded Congress on Thursday to pass his preferred version of surveillance legislation, asserting that every day of delay could put the country in danger.
Mr. Bush said again that renewing the surveillance legislation is “a very urgent priority,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/washington/28cnd-bush.html?ref=business
Quite a nosy bastard I must say. How about we the people install surveillance cameras in the oval office? Wow wouldn’t that be a hoot. It’ll be the new wave…Unreality TV.
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On top of that water concern, you have to wonder why NASA's sending a couple of spacecraft on a collision course with the moon to mine for water:
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By Jeremy Hsu
updated 3:02 p.m. MT, Wed., Feb. 27, 2008
Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.
The Earth-on-moon violence may raise eyebrows, but NASA's history shows that such missions can yield extremely useful scientific observations.
updated 3:02 p.m. MT, Wed., Feb. 27, 2008
Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.
The Earth-on-moon violence may raise eyebrows, but NASA's history shows that such missions can yield extremely useful scientific observations.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23371839
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Another thing that’s kept in vials are vaccines. While it’s no secret the military has been injecting soldiers with unknown substances since syringes were invented, this was another big story in the news the same day the ricin was discovered:
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 29, 3:59 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon can require its troops be vaccinated against anthrax, a federal judge said Friday.
Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Food and Drug Administration acted appropriately when it found the vaccine to be safe and approved its use. She dismissed a lawsuit by military officials who argued the drug is unproven and the scientific data unsound.
The dispute has languished in the court system for years. A federal judge suspended the vaccination program in 2004 after faulting the FDA's process for approving the drug. After the FDA redid the process and again found it to be safe, the military announced plans to reinstate mandatory vaccinations.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/military_anthrax
That prompted a look into a ricin vaccine:
Ricin is poisonous if inhaled, injected, or ingested, acting as a toxin by the inhibition of protein synthesis. Ricin is 6000 times more toxic than cyanide and 12000 times more poisonous than rattlesnake venom by weight.
While there is no known antidote, the US military has developed a vaccine.
http://newsfromrussia.com/news/hotspots/29-02-2008/104311-ricin-0
Of course they have. So now the soldiers have yet another mandatory mystery injection to look forward to. They’ve been telling us for years about the needle and the damage done, it’s becoming quite apparent that heroin and crack are the least of our concerns.
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And So It Begins
February 10th I dreamt of receiving an email from Purpleaura stating the internet was going down in some places in Florida and hers would be gone soon. This was happening on purpose by the government. She posted the information to GLP and somebody replied “And so it begins here”. End of dream.
A few days later I was looking around on GLP and noticed “And so it begins” was being said a lot. I did search for the phrase to try and recall where I first saw it and found a whole thread about it. I felt compelled to reply to that thread and thankfully, the person whose post was the first one I’d seen, included a link and that saved a lot of time searching. This was the post:
Iran To Launch Oil And Gas Exchange On February 27!
TEHRAN, February 13 (RIA Novosti) - Iran will launch a commodities exchange for oil, petrochemicals and natural gas on February 27, the Islamic Republic's oil minister said on Wednesday.
[link to en.rian.ru]
And So It Begins....
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message504630/pg1
February 26th Florida experienced mass power outages affecting millions of people, Purpleaura included. It has since been reported human error was at fault and of course the official version reeks of suspicion:
By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press Writer Sat Mar 1, 1:53 AM ET
MIAMI - A power failure that plunged large parts of Florida into the dark this week was caused primarily by human error, the state's largest electric company said Friday.
Florida Power & Light issued a preliminary report saying that a field engineer was to blame for Tuesday's failure, which affected more than 584,000 customers, or the equivalent of more than 1 million people.
The engineer was investigating a malfunctioning switch at one of the power company's substations in west Miami when he disabled two levels of protection for the system, officials said.
"We don't know, still, why that particular employee took it upon himself to disable both sets of relays," FPL president Armando Olivera told reporters.
The employee, who had "significant tenure," has been put on paid leave during an investigation, Olivera said. It would have been appropriate for the employee to disable one, but not two, levels of protection while making measurements, he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080301/ap_on_re_us/florida_outages
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Another thing that’s kept in vials are vaccines. While it’s no secret the military has been injecting soldiers with unknown substances since syringes were invented, this was another big story in the news the same day the ricin was discovered:
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 29, 3:59 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon can require its troops be vaccinated against anthrax, a federal judge said Friday.
Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Food and Drug Administration acted appropriately when it found the vaccine to be safe and approved its use. She dismissed a lawsuit by military officials who argued the drug is unproven and the scientific data unsound.
The dispute has languished in the court system for years. A federal judge suspended the vaccination program in 2004 after faulting the FDA's process for approving the drug. After the FDA redid the process and again found it to be safe, the military announced plans to reinstate mandatory vaccinations.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/military_anthrax
That prompted a look into a ricin vaccine:
Ricin is poisonous if inhaled, injected, or ingested, acting as a toxin by the inhibition of protein synthesis. Ricin is 6000 times more toxic than cyanide and 12000 times more poisonous than rattlesnake venom by weight.
While there is no known antidote, the US military has developed a vaccine.
http://newsfromrussia.com/news/hotspots/29-02-2008/104311-ricin-0
Of course they have. So now the soldiers have yet another mandatory mystery injection to look forward to. They’ve been telling us for years about the needle and the damage done, it’s becoming quite apparent that heroin and crack are the least of our concerns.
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And So It Begins
February 10th I dreamt of receiving an email from Purpleaura stating the internet was going down in some places in Florida and hers would be gone soon. This was happening on purpose by the government. She posted the information to GLP and somebody replied “And so it begins here”. End of dream.
A few days later I was looking around on GLP and noticed “And so it begins” was being said a lot. I did search for the phrase to try and recall where I first saw it and found a whole thread about it. I felt compelled to reply to that thread and thankfully, the person whose post was the first one I’d seen, included a link and that saved a lot of time searching. This was the post:
Iran To Launch Oil And Gas Exchange On February 27!
TEHRAN, February 13 (RIA Novosti) - Iran will launch a commodities exchange for oil, petrochemicals and natural gas on February 27, the Islamic Republic's oil minister said on Wednesday.
[link to en.rian.ru]
And So It Begins....
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message504630/pg1
February 26th Florida experienced mass power outages affecting millions of people, Purpleaura included. It has since been reported human error was at fault and of course the official version reeks of suspicion:
By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press Writer Sat Mar 1, 1:53 AM ET
MIAMI - A power failure that plunged large parts of Florida into the dark this week was caused primarily by human error, the state's largest electric company said Friday.
Florida Power & Light issued a preliminary report saying that a field engineer was to blame for Tuesday's failure, which affected more than 584,000 customers, or the equivalent of more than 1 million people.
The engineer was investigating a malfunctioning switch at one of the power company's substations in west Miami when he disabled two levels of protection for the system, officials said.
"We don't know, still, why that particular employee took it upon himself to disable both sets of relays," FPL president Armando Olivera told reporters.
The employee, who had "significant tenure," has been put on paid leave during an investigation, Olivera said. It would have been appropriate for the employee to disable one, but not two, levels of protection while making measurements, he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080301/ap_on_re_us/florida_outages
Yes Mr. Engineer, why indeed.
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Risky Business
In the North to Alaska blog I was speculating on what might be a good excuse to launch the North American Union to us regular folks:
Either a war between the two nations will have to rise up “on its own” or we will have to be threatened and/or attacked and admit we need the U.S. to protect us.
Way to go Harpo.
In a ceremony that received virtually no attention in the American media, the United States and Canada signed a military agreement Feb. 14 allowing the armed forces from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a domestic civil emergency, even one that does not involve a cross-border crisis.
U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of USNORTHCOM, signs agreement Feb. 14, 2008, with Canadian Air Force Lt. Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command (USNORTHCOM photo)
The agreement, defined as a Civil Assistance Plan, was not submitted to Congress for approval, nor did Congress pass any law or treaty specifically authorizing this military agreement to combine the operations of the armed forces of the United States and Canada in the event of a wide range of domestic civil disturbances ranging from violent storms, to health epidemics, to civil riots or terrorist attacks.
In Canada, the agreement paving the way for the militaries of the U.S. and Canada to cross each other's borders to fight domestic emergencies was not announced either by the Harper government or the Canadian military, prompting sharp protest.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=57228
From the same blog:
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Reminds me of the Risk game, just stick with me and we’ll take these bastards down together. And when you aren’t looking we’ll take you down too.
Mr. Harper this is not a game of Risk…
Makes me wonder what might be up their collective sleeves to provoke such a need.
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On the subject of dreams that we haven’t quite figured out or could simply be literal:
Amputee Chef
Purpleaura ~ February 25th, 2008
This is another dream where I seem to be watching and participating at the same time. It starts out with me sitting at a table watching a chef discuss recipes. In the dream I know I am not a chef but an observer of the discussion. There’s a male chef at the table trying to get my attention, he’s quite a big man, dark hair and appears to have a crush on me. I’m trying to ignore him because he’s with the group of chefs, but at the same time I can feel he's a lonely man.
It jumps and now I’m in a hospital, again as a spectator and not partaking in the goings- on. The chef decided to have his stomach stapled to lose weight. There’s a woman with him and I’m not sure if this is the woman I played around the table or a different one, but she’s holding his hand. The chef was on the table ready to be wheeled away when I saw the woman collapse. I watch as they hooked her up to an IV, then I see the hospital staff running down the corridor. The woman’s IV bag had filled with blood.
Suddenly it jumps again and the porters wheel the woman and the chef side-by-side together on the bed. She says to man, “I’m glad it’s worked out, you look good”. The man said, “It kinda worked out.” Just then, as the woman is looking at him, he lifts up the covers and both his legs have been amputated. I start wondering “How the F*** did his legs get amputated when he went in to have his stomach stapled?” I then realized the woman had either a blood disorder or something wrong with her that warranted blood, and it was considered more life-threatening but she hadn’t told the man this. I then woke up thinking this is a bit cuckoo of dream.
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The Ice Man Cometh
Miss Scarlet ~ February 16th, 2008
I saw a store of some sort (it looked like a five and dime, lots of different things displayed in the window like pots and pans and electronic equipment), with a banner across the window that said Ice-something in big red letters. I think it was Ice Man Cometh or at least that's what I had in my head when I woke up. Beside the banner was a little shed with a door attached to the building, much like a mudroom. Over the door it said “Emergency Entrance”, which I thought was weird because most times it's emergency exit. Just as I was looking at the building I saw a man but couldn't make out any details in his appearance. He read the sign on the window then entered the door and that was it. I've never seen the movie and have no idea what it's about, I guess put that one on the list too. I liked this descriptor though:
The play contains many allusions to political topics, particularly anarchism and socialism. Hugo, Larry and Don are former members of an anarchist movement.
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Upside-Down Map
Also February 16th, 2008
I was looking at a map, I think a weather map, and Calgary was much further north than it is and Edmonton was south of Calgary and in Saskatchewan. That was all.
If you go to Google Earth and flip the earth in a clockwise direction by approximately 140 degrees that would be exactly what I saw.
Mr. Harper this is not a game of Risk…
Makes me wonder what might be up their collective sleeves to provoke such a need.
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On the subject of dreams that we haven’t quite figured out or could simply be literal:
Amputee Chef
Purpleaura ~ February 25th, 2008
This is another dream where I seem to be watching and participating at the same time. It starts out with me sitting at a table watching a chef discuss recipes. In the dream I know I am not a chef but an observer of the discussion. There’s a male chef at the table trying to get my attention, he’s quite a big man, dark hair and appears to have a crush on me. I’m trying to ignore him because he’s with the group of chefs, but at the same time I can feel he's a lonely man.
It jumps and now I’m in a hospital, again as a spectator and not partaking in the goings- on. The chef decided to have his stomach stapled to lose weight. There’s a woman with him and I’m not sure if this is the woman I played around the table or a different one, but she’s holding his hand. The chef was on the table ready to be wheeled away when I saw the woman collapse. I watch as they hooked her up to an IV, then I see the hospital staff running down the corridor. The woman’s IV bag had filled with blood.
Suddenly it jumps again and the porters wheel the woman and the chef side-by-side together on the bed. She says to man, “I’m glad it’s worked out, you look good”. The man said, “It kinda worked out.” Just then, as the woman is looking at him, he lifts up the covers and both his legs have been amputated. I start wondering “How the F*** did his legs get amputated when he went in to have his stomach stapled?” I then realized the woman had either a blood disorder or something wrong with her that warranted blood, and it was considered more life-threatening but she hadn’t told the man this. I then woke up thinking this is a bit cuckoo of dream.
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The Ice Man Cometh
Miss Scarlet ~ February 16th, 2008
I saw a store of some sort (it looked like a five and dime, lots of different things displayed in the window like pots and pans and electronic equipment), with a banner across the window that said Ice-something in big red letters. I think it was Ice Man Cometh or at least that's what I had in my head when I woke up. Beside the banner was a little shed with a door attached to the building, much like a mudroom. Over the door it said “Emergency Entrance”, which I thought was weird because most times it's emergency exit. Just as I was looking at the building I saw a man but couldn't make out any details in his appearance. He read the sign on the window then entered the door and that was it. I've never seen the movie and have no idea what it's about, I guess put that one on the list too. I liked this descriptor though:
The play contains many allusions to political topics, particularly anarchism and socialism. Hugo, Larry and Don are former members of an anarchist movement.
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Upside-Down Map
Also February 16th, 2008
I was looking at a map, I think a weather map, and Calgary was much further north than it is and Edmonton was south of Calgary and in Saskatchewan. That was all.
If you go to Google Earth and flip the earth in a clockwise direction by approximately 140 degrees that would be exactly what I saw.
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UFO’s & The Red Book
Miss Scarlet ~ February 17th, 2008
I had a couple of dreams last night, in one you and I were in a tall building that had a glass roof. We could see in the distance some sort of flying object that had two huge search lights for headlights that could move independently from one another. I "heard" this was a pilot vehicle to escort the other vehicle in. So we're watching this thing when all of a sudden this shadow starts to appear over the glass roof and just then a huge spaceship passed over us very slowly. That was it.
In another one I was walking down the street behind a man who appeared to be homeless, he had long grey hair that was really mussed up and knotted, and his clothes were very dishevelled and dirty. I got the impression he thought I was following him but I wasn't, we just happened to be going in the same direction. We got to my mother's house and he sat down at the kitchen table with some other people I don't know and he was holding on to a red book. I looked over towards the table trying to see something else but the homeless man thought I was trying to see what his book was called, so he wrapped his arms around it to hide the title. I still looked over that way because I hadn't been able to figure out whatever it was I was trying to see, when he held up his book and started yelling at me, saying "You really want to see this book? You really need to see what it's called?" and then he held up the book. It was red leather with gold writing and had a frame around the writing comprised of a double gold line (that part seemed important). I didn't understand the writing because it was either symbols or a language I don't know which is everything besides English. That was all of that one.
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I think that’s it for now.
